A country-wide elephant census has pegged the number of pachyderms in the country at 27,000, of which 514 roam the forests of north Bengal.

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) announced a “near-total ban” on the commercial trade of elephant ivory last year.

International elephant research organization, Save The Elephants, said Thursday an ambitious new report identifying some of Kenya's most important wildlife migratory corridors will help close the g

Twenty-one elephants have died due to electrocution between April last and February this year, Union Environment minister Harsh Vardhan said today.

Windhoek-Namibia has since 2014 lost 245 elephants to poaching, out of which 17 were illegally hunted this year alone.

Both humans and animals are at the receiving ends due to the growing man-animal conflicts over living spaces across the State.

The forest department has recommended the abolition of the posts of two field directors, saying their work can be done from Bengaluru.